I'm just wondering if someone can assist me with what I may be doing wrong. I installed an MSI Radeon R7 260X back in early June. Uninstalled all previous versions of AMD Catalyst Software, installed updated (14.4) software along with the MSI Afterburner Software. Since then though I've been getting BSODs which are becoming more frequent.

If you have any idea on what I may have done wrong, or what may be the cause please let me know. If you need further details also please let me know.

Crash Dump Analysis

Crash dump directory: C:\Windows\Minidump

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On Fri 22/08/2014 1:14:56 AM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\082214-54803-01.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x28A80) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009792270, 0xFFFFFA800DFB5F60, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER

On Fri 22/08/2014 1:14:56 AM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\memory.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x28A80) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009792270, 0xFFFFFA800DFB5F60, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER

On Thu 21/08/2014 1:09:59 AM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\082114-30841-01.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x26820) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009736860, 0xFFFFFA800F318470, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER

On Thu 31/07/2014 12:34:12 PM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\073114-22308-01.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x28A80) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009DCA570, 0xFFFFFA800C3F89A0, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER

On Wed 30/07/2014 3:07:52 AM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\073014-40139-01.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x28A80) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009DC3570, 0xFFFFFA800D677E90, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER

On Wed 23/07/2014 2:41:35 AM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\072314-63929-01.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x28A80) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009DA9570, 0xFFFFFA800DC2A190, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER

On Mon 16/06/2014 2:06:42 AM GMT your computer crashedcrash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\061614-37767-01.dmpThis was probably caused by the following module: atikmdag.sys (atikmdag+0x28A80) Bugcheck code: 0x18 (0xFFFFFA8009DA9570, 0xFFFFFA80153EE2D0, 0x1, 0x1)Error: REFERENCE_BY_POINTERfile path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sysproduct: ATI Radeon Familycompany: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.description: ATI Radeon Kernel Mode DriverBug check description: This indicates that the reference count of an object is illegal for the current state of the object.This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. This might be a case of memory corruption. More often memory corruption happens because of software errors in buggy drivers, not because of faulty RAM modules. A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.). Google query: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. REFERENCE_BY_POINTER